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Photos: The birth of a supercomputer Camera icon

Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 23 Jan 2006 10:55 GMT

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This is a single unit of the supercomputer, and contains 256 processors. The advantage of the Power 4 architecture becomes clear — not only are the processors close together but the boards are stacked closely and the units can be close together too. That all helps provide the high performance that is essential for supercomputing.

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